Entity Periods

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

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confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

15 rows where period_id = "PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC"

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ENT_EGY_ASH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Ash ENT_EGY_ASH Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Ash is attested from Dynasty 1 wine-jar labels from Abydos where his name appears in association with Libyan oasis regions; he is one of the oldest attested Egyptian deities associated with the Western Desert and Libya; Wilkinson (2003) p. 193: Ash "is attested from the very beginning of Egyptian history" SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_BANEBDJEDET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Banebdjedet ENT_EGY_BANEBDJEDET Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Banebdjedet (the ram of Mendes; "Ba-soul, lord of Djedet") is attested from Early Dynastic texts at Mendes in the Nile Delta; he is one of the most ancient ram deities; his ram-headed solar theology connects him to the primordial ba-soul of the sun; among the earliest attested Delta deities SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_BAT,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Bat ENT_EGY_BAT Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Archaic bovine sky-goddess of the 7th Upper Egyptian nome, depicted as the inward-curling-horned cow head atop the Narmer Palette (Dyn. 0/1) and later absorbed by Hathor. SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_HAROERIS,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Haroeris ENT_EGY_HAROERIS Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Haroeris (Horus the Elder, Hor-wer = "Great Horus") is one of the earliest attested Egyptian deities; his hawk iconography appears on Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE); as the sky-falcon who fights Seth, he is the divine prototype of the pharaoh; a predynastic and early dynastic Horus form distinct from the younger Horus who avenges Osiris SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_HORUS,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Horus ENT_EGY_HORUS Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Horus as the royal falcon god is attested on the Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE), the earliest monument of unified Egypt; he is the patron deity of kingship from the first dynasty onward SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_MEHIT,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Mehit ENT_EGY_MEHIT Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Lioness goddess of This/Thinis whose recumbent-lioness emblem is attested already in the Early Dynastic period; consort of Anhur (Onuris). SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_MIN,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Min ENT_EGY_MIN Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Min of Coptos (Qift) is attested by the Min colossi, now in the Ashmolean Museum — some of the oldest surviving large-scale Egyptian sculpture, dated to the Predynastic or Early Dynastic period (c. 3000 BCE); his ithyphallic cult at Coptos is among the oldest documented Egyptian religious traditions SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_NEITH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Neith ENT_EGY_NEITH Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Neith is one of the oldest attested Egyptian deities; the name Neith-hotep (a 1st Dynasty queen) and the Neith-headed standard appear in the earliest dynastic records; her cult at Sais is pre-dynastic in origin SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_NEKHBET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Nekhbet ENT_EGY_NEKHBET Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Nekhbet (the vulture of Upper Egypt) appears on the Narmer Palette alongside Wadjet; she is the protective vulture goddess of Upper Egypt and the pharaoh from the earliest dynastic period SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_SATET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Satet ENT_EGY_SATET Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Satis/Satet is attested from Early Dynastic inscriptions; the Khasekhemwy vase (Dynasty 2, c. 2670 BCE) at Hierakonpolis depicts her; she was a state deity at Elephantine from the earliest pharaonic period; her white-crown-with-antelope-horns iconography appears on Dynasty 1 objects SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_SED,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Sed ENT_EGY_SED Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Archaic jackal/wolf-form deity for whom the royal Sed (jubilee) festival is named, attested from the 1st Dynasty and associated with Wepwawet. SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_SESHAT,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Seshat ENT_EGY_SESHAT Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC medium Seshat (goddess of writing and measurement) is associated with the "Stretching the Cord" foundation ceremony, attested from the 1st Dynasty; her earliest certain textual attestation is slightly later but her Early Dynastic role in royal ceremony is well-documented SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_SETH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Seth ENT_EGY_SETH Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Seth is attested in the Early Dynastic period at Nubt (Ombos/Naqada), his cult center, which predates unification; the Seth animal appears in Predynastic imagery; 2nd Dynasty pharaoh Peribsen took a Seth name SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_WADJET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Wadjet ENT_EGY_WADJET Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Wadjet (the cobra of Lower Egypt) is attested from the Early Dynastic period as the protector of Lower Egypt and of the pharaoh; she appears on the royal uraeus from the earliest dynasties SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed
ENT_EGY_WEPWAWET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC Wepwawet ENT_EGY_WEPWAWET Early Dynastic Period PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC high Wepwawet ("Opener of the Ways") appears on the Narmer Palette as a standard carried before the pharaoh; his jackal cult at Asyut (Lycopolis) is among the oldest provincial cults in Egypt SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);